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m SiS^^ Fajce Two THE PILOT, Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina Pjucay, February 19, 19^^. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N C. of a quality that has given rise to a more interested idea of the negro and his relations to the community. * Within the past few months [certain developments in South- NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor orn Pines have removed some BION H. BUTLER. Editor JAMES BOYD STRUTHEKS BURT RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors Subscription Rates: Year $2.00! Six Menths $1.00 Three Months 50 of the thorns that beset the ra cial relation of the two peoples who comprise the population of the village and a better under standing between both sides of the creek has awakened a new A more cordial under standing has been built on a if he grows feed and food crops he will not have the empty belly ache. OUR INDIFFERENT HIGHWAY SLAUGHTER Correspondence GRAINS OF' SAND BOY SCOUTS One thing that goes along with no depression in its effec i Little Tolbert was aorely afflicted , a cow with big horns, grazing near I with a cold and his big friend, Vir-' the sidewalk, and how was he to know !ginia, was feeling very sorry for him. that she was chained? The little fel- ' .n a sympathetic tone she inquired; low screamed in fright. What are you taking for your cold, jjg reached home with tear-stained Editor, The Pilot: This being the time when contribu- tiveness is the continued I ;>««« ff;“ing face, and in response to his mother’s slaughter and mutilation on the “ ® i take a handkerchief,” he replied, inquiry told his story. Then, “what highways. It becomes a question particular request thereby conform-, ^ „ whether the good road is a bene- ;«« the recommended procedure of; fit or a crave blight on human contributors, that Forest fiies have aveiaged safetv and the -ictual develon-' help which is most in accord with the loss amounting to $1,000,000 m ‘I suppose that she would have ment of the nation. In spite of a talents of the person mak- ^<orth Carolina the last 22 l^utted you, his mother responded. Addiess all communications to The Pilot. Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. THE END OF THE RAT HOLE sounder foundation, and ^®th; j,rnaJigj. number of cars register-1 the contribution sections are feeling a broader confidence in each other. Out of that better relation has come these two events, white man anil I years or a total of $22,022,499 for the After a second’s reflection the Theiefore may I beg your indul- ’^his is one of the most severe youngster demanded: “What God put ed the death roll steadily in-; creases, the death rate for last! to devote one of your price-1 vear reaching around 34,000.! moments to the consideration of 1 state. The forecast ia for more deaths! the Boy Scout movement in an edi- o nthe economic life of the them butts on that cow for?.” The -A'berdeei* Public Library is de- black man working together foi'l fnr truffip Avnprfq oovltorial. Much sj>ace, time and money I The combined forest fire damages pendent upon donations for support. 1 J >ear, lor irailic experts say i , . . , O.. *u„ THp Town nf Aberdepn anH Thiira. the pleasure and the encourage- mo: t of the otl er, and both learning that on a mutual ap- ,rroach depends the harmony and driving From Sanford to Mt. Airy the | t'^-^etulness that must come to practicallv impossible to has been materially help- people are in a quandary about each from the other. ‘f “‘^tivity, the proposition of the Atlantic! Southern Pmes has a good countrv without' tomorrow on the exper better roflHn mpan more reck- have been devoted to the questions of j over the last 22 years surpasses the The Town of Aberdeen and the Thurs- <5nppd and mnre than half' unemployment interpreted as lack of I State’s total investment in buildings f^^y Afternoon Book Club are regu- the deaths and accidents are at-1 < PP-tunlty to devote time to ,ain-! and improvements at all of the State- ^ther contributions lul occupation. Unquestionably a crit- - - I 1, • j ^ „ on a curve, possibly to meet and , *u- • u * .u r says it is operating at a loss, ^'mall minority, and that small; by a hair a car coming in' but another form of and those who know the situa-1 minority can be suppressed and I opposite direction In the “"employment. If these potentialities tion readilv believe it tells the held in check with little diffi-: ^.jn observe the ere permitted to atrophy through non truth. Its business has been tak en away by the trucks and au tomobiles. That the passenger service will ever again pick up culty by the great n^jority of | crossing.s, while responsibles, and is. The objec-: whoHv indifferent to tionables on the west side of the creek is yielding easily to such laws. Restrictions of speed , ,, lare carefully followed on some of to be profitable is in grave more logical handling of the sit-; streets, while some doubt. Years ago that road w’as; nation now pursued, and with through the built under the mistaken no-1 the better understanding be- regardless of anything, tion that an outlet was needed; tween the races it will be discov-j of imbecility, the from Wilmington to the moun-.that a common ground can; • ^ promnts some'driv- tains. But traffic persisted in I be found on which both can eS^\o disJegS an^^^^^ and going from the mountains up the stand and on which each can help the other to the benefit of both. That song festival of the negro’s peculiar and interesting music is worth repeating, for it Shenandoah valley rather than down to Wilmington and other outlets served for the limited traffic and the Cape Fear and Yadkin valley road was never ai’s the simon-pure rendering of success. The rail business of the negro music, not as a thea- North Carolina is northeast, not trical imitation of a sincerely re- northwest- The outlets of thejli^ious impulse, but the honest export traffic are at Norfolk. I >«tpouring of actual human emo- Baltimore and New York, and tion and devotional integrity, the centers to which business The colored folks can add to the moves are the big cities of the interest of the white visitor’s North Atlantic, not the South, ^^tay in the Sandhills if they are use the structure tomorrow will not /“'ii be saved by good roads or beautifying some are whollv indifferent to , ^ ^ ^ a place for the dead. This proper guidance and capitali zation of youthful energy is the ob ject of the Scout movement. Direct ing the mental and physical vigor of cur boys into channels of purposeful activity surely is worth while. Pro- vii.'ing a much needed system of sup ervised physical develoi>ment and at the same time instilling tolerance, good spoi-tsmanahip and group en- tear ahead in all manner of com plicated danger spots, indiffer ent to the fact that the right of way, if too vehemently claimed i™n^b*ne ment«J aGjustm«,t and maintained is frequently the | ’’y right of way to perdition. The Lord only knows what is to be the outcome of this dis regard for law and safety on the highway, for a superstition seems to pervade the human lace that it is ever>- man’s bus iness as to the speed he runs. Blit like all other civic projects the owned insitutions of higher letirning. "'*1^ he welcome. The total would be almost sufficient tc operate all public schools in North Andy Creamer at Carolina for a year. the Highland Pines Inn is moved to wonder. This has been a mighty delightful winter II. Lee, Jr., is attending school for around here, but his brother up in his first year. One night after he had who farms in summer and in been tucked in bed and was supposed winter hauls cord wood into town to to be safe on the way to slumberland, writes that the lack of snow has he called his mother to him and this P>’t‘vented the hauling of the wood to is, what he told her: “Mother, there the towns, and as beans are cold are two things that I am not going weather diet he can’t sell his bean to do; I am not going to get married crop. So Andy says we better arrange and I’m not going to college.” to have things natural even if it does mean a little more cold weather in “Man,” said the old man as he laid the South, and he says that if it is down the paper and came to the sup- ^ ^®^t that Pete Pender’s idea that the per table. “I got some good news fer yc.” And mommer said she would sure Le glad to hear it. “Just been reading in the paper there that in Sumatra this spring you can b«.v a perfectly good python snake 25 feet long for $700.” Three-.vear-old Hugh had been to undertaking requests the assistance j his graivddaddy’s garage to get a of public- minded supporters. In order | rew licens-e plate attached to his tri- to provide facilities for future har- cycle. Retarning home alone, ne saw vest an investment must be made. ■ Surely an investment in our youth is i rot a risky venture. big uplift in the bottom of the At lantic ocean has warmed up the sea and thus made the whole world warm er Pete better put the ocean back where it was and get things to nor mal once more. We are in receipt of a complaint that the groundhog deceived us. We welcome all complaints, even if we can’t do much about some of them. We must refuse to accept blame for the weather and the stock market. Scout siortn Atlantic, not tne boutn. ocu. u objects to At any rate the Atlantic and guided by their \\hite: j clriving! I have convmcxH. y -11- lu <.1 ui 4. r friends, and to the benetit of ot this enterprise I wo ;adkin road has not been able to encourag- ^ on b.h=.f of the Counci Yadkin cJo mjre than a bit of local traf They snould be encourag- j i. 1 i. i. X , ed to sing more, for their work fic and of late years state and nation have been building hard . . . couragement will also stimulate top roads to encourage the au- to better action, tomobile and the truck to take, away the little business the road used to have. As long as the OLR GRAVE therance. public fund provides a road over DEFICIENCIES which traffic may move with- Harrison Stutts sends The Pi , . out cost to the vehicle for con- lot a letter from a business con-'fails that are guarded by train struction and upkeep the high- nection way will take a big end of the uation business, and the shape in which deser the railroads over the country' North Carolina farmers and all The secretary of the Boy Council is Ralph Chamller, ou of the value would appreciate, er with no red blood in his veins ^ and not entitled to a hearing. A ^ts fur- railroad employe has to be gov erned by rigid rules, and backed by long e.xperience and careful record of intelligent w'ork on the JUSTICE road before he is entrusted with ^ ^ anything to drive, and then he Editor, The Pilot: j must confine himself to twol I’eadmg in The Pilot of the tern- « Me accident that was prevented! oti —C. T.. WALBIEL :: n iiarrison oruits sends 1 ne ri-:. *u ^ . tt ; a letter from a business con- that are guarded by tram accident that was prevented, on « ction that comments on a sit-1 (l‘»Patchers and time .schedules Jhe Seaboard track, I wish that fel- s .tion in North Carolina that! that ensure safety. But anybody: t*’*' --d received -severe punishment, | serves the attention of alli<^an drive an automobile, wnth-|“ y‘^«r at least m jail. Thirty years g 1 __ 1 • A _ f ‘T^Ji I I'Fi 0<-l'Tn^i 'irk^l .>11 !.! 1 fird themselves is sufficient evi-.Noi-th Carolina people. The let GAM MACK & CO. Members New York Stock Exchange Pittsburgh Stock Exchange Main Office 39 Broadway, New York City PINEHURST—VILLAGE COURT Telephones: Pinehurst 3821—Southoni Pines 6751 out any question as to ability, schfvol and dealing: with all kinds I without any time schedules. dence that the Atlantic ;.nd Yad- ter makes note of a survey that' "ithout any re.strictions as to kin road has no hope except has just been completed by the ‘crossings, sidings, passing, or through some miracle that does p^ederal government, and which rot seem likely to happen until .«hows that the cotton states the people are faced with the paid out last year for food and expensive job some day, per- feed and other things they could haps not too far in the future, have made at home on the farms of rebuilding the roads that now over $430,000,000, and that the are assumed to be permanent and fifteen Southern States paid out enduring forever. But one thing the year over a billion dollars, that is as certain as all the Reference to North Carolina other mutations of time, is that ^ays it is a state more developed with increasing traffic the roads industrially than any other will one day have to be rebuilt. Southern State, and that in the for increasing traffic and heav- last two years it has greatly in- ier tonnage wi 1 in due ssa.son er-^ased its food and feed crops, have its effects. Then the tune jjut that it still can not feed it- we sing w’ill be a different one. gg]f Estimates by the State Un it is not likely the state will iversity indicate that in some stand for another vast bonded crops it falls short from 50 to 80 debt. Some way the state will per cent of supplying its own wiggle out of the difficulty, but needs. “The average southern always in these^ cases the people farmer,” says the letter, “still have to pay, just as they do raises cotton and tobacco for an now. We are wrecking the little already glutted market while he roads and murdering the big pa.vs a farmer in Minnesota to ones. Probably the big ones will make his butter and condensed come through. Most of the lit- miik, one in Kansas to raise his tie ones may not. But the State meat, one in Iowa to supplement corporation commission cannot corn crop, one in Maryland settle the difficulty. The devil- qj. Ohio to raise iiis vegetables ment is already done. And it in- haul them to a cannery of culprits I feel the juvenile courts [ shoulo deal more .severely with the young offenders, but seldom is the punishment adequate to the crime. —.M. LILLIAN DUNBAP. anything else that makes for .■safety e.xcept a law that is bare ly a suggestion, and which is not given two thoughts by ten (Editor’s Note—Judge Humber of per cent of the drivers. What is; Fioconfer’s Court at Carthage informs! 84,000 deaths a year as against The Pilot that this case was not heard the right to drive as you choose - | by him as reported in last week’s Ls-: People are the cheapest thing in sue. It was disposed of by a justice the world. Kill' them all you | of the peace without reference to want to. Cartha^.) j Carthage Locals On Saturday evening at the resi dence of ’Mrs. J. L. McGraw, Miss Margaret McLeod was hostess at h-idge and' rook, honoring Mrs. Clif ton McLeod and Mrs. Sadie Leak of Rockingham. The valentine motif was effectively carried out in table ap pointments and refreshments. I'he iiuests of honor were each presented II lovely gift. High score prize for bridge was presented Mrs. L. R, Sugg and high score for rook to Mrs. George Thomas. Mrs. Clifton McLeod and Mrs, Sa- r ie Leak ,of Rockingham were week end guests of Miss Margaret McLeod. 1.1,...I, ..T ......2-. V. naui uiciii lu c\ Lttiiiieiy. end guests 01 Miss Margaret .vlcl.eod. vohts^ more than the Atlantic Then he pays several dealers to: Madames H. c. Roberts, T. L. Rid- and Yadkm, It will get every handle these items and haul | die and Sarah Mancss of Sanford road that is .starved to cle'ith by them to a railroad for carr>-ingj pent Tucs ay here with relatives, taking away its traffic and snift- them when he could have pro- m,- and Mrs H Lee Thomas are mg that traffic_ to highways ,]uced all of them at little co.st on' ‘ I Uilt and maintained for all ve- ground now used for a crop hides free of charge. We are wMich he can sell only at a net about at the end of that rat hole- lo.ss,” farmers and everybody THE NEGRO know all these facts. The SPIRITU.XLS main task is to so arrange that Last week was notable for the things that can be made at home prominence gained on two occa- may be made at home rather sions bv'the ne'Toes of Soutnern than bought from distant sec- Pines, The exhibit of pictures by ' ions with all the attendant cost the pastor of the colored church of getting them here, and with and his pupils was one event and the difficult task of paying for the other was the song service them with money expected from Purdy, who teaches in the high at the country club Sunday by cotton and tobacco which fail to' another group. Over two hun- bring enough to pay- The ques- dred visitors dropped in to .see tion is a big one, and involve-i the pictures, and probably twice more than new'spaper talk, but that number were on hand to it has to be solved by raising hear the earnest and unique per- more stuff at home, and there is formers at the concert. In both no way out of it but doing one instances the audiences were thing. The farmer wlio does not thoroughly plea.sed with what raise much cotton or tobacco they saw' and heard, for it was may not have much money, but ••tceiving congri^tulations upon the arrival of a son February 7th. Mrs. ('. G. Spencer has returned from a visit to her home in Florida. -Mrs. C, C, Yates, Mrs, H, J. Hall at (I .Mrs, Cornelia Black spent Thurs- djiV in .\berdeen with friends, Mrs. Nancy Martinuale and Miss P^‘-sie Leonard of Highfalls were in town Saturday. Miss Frances Purdy of Flora Mc- Honald College spent the week-end here with her sister. Miss Sarah school. Miss Katharine Blue of Fliora Mc Donald College came home for the week-end. Mrs. P. K. Kennedy and Miss Louise Williams were visitors in Sanford Saturdajf, Mr, and Mrs. D, H, Parks spent ‘^'unday in Fayetteville with friends. Miss Elizabeth Young of Smith- field visited Mrs, E, H. Morton over Sunday, C. G. Spencer and daughters. Misses Mary Fowler and Elizabeth Ann, went to Greensboro Friday far'*; the day. Madames L. \V, Barlow, U, L. Spence, W. H. Currie, R. G. Wallace and M. G, Dalrymple spent Saturday in Raleigh, .Mrs. J, B. Kennedy of Highfalls is sjiendinfj some time here with her lother, E(1 Brewer, who is slowly improving. Mr, and Mrs. E, T. McKeithen were in town Thursday.’ Georg’e Carter and son William • spent a few days in Momstown, 1 Tenn., last week. ; Mrs. Stewart P'vans of Hemp was i r. visitor here Saturday. .Mrs, George Carter'was called to : | •Madsion Wednesday on accvount of i ji the illness of her father. Judge and Mrs, \V. J, .Adams, who i |i are spending the winter in Raleigh, i i: were at home for the week-end. .Mrs, B, C, Wallace spent Tuesday j in Sanford with Mrs, Henry Roberts, j :f .Madames Ralph Leach, 'aeorge Mar-' tin, Ralph Caldwell and Miss Alice King: of Aberdeen visited friends here Wednesday, .Mrs, A, P, Thompson, Mrs, Bert Xicoll, Mrs, Eric Nelson and Mrs, C, H, Lyman nf Pinehurst were vis itors in town Wednesday, PAUL T.BARNUM, INC Insurance of All Kinds —At The— Citizens’ Bank Building Southern Pines, N. C. Successors To PAUL T. BARNUM anu S. R. RICHARDSON, INC. MODERN PLUMBING Grey’s, Inc,, reports that a lady from Boston saw their advertisement of North Carolina made products in The Pilot and awaited her visit to .^'outhern Pines to purchase several of the dresses advertised. HEATING AND REFRIGERATION ELECTROL OIL BURNERS The Outstanding Oil Burner Value Priced Within Reach of All I kIGIDAIRE Guaranteed for 3 years. A General Motors Value—Lifetime Porcelain Inside and Out. You W'ill Bo Surpri.sed How Very Inexpensive VVe Are LV.O’CALIAGHAN Telephone 5341 Southern Pines, N. C.
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